Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre
Editor(s): Diane Long Hoeveler, Beth Lau
Pages: ix & 180 pp.
Published: 1993
ISBN: 9780873527064
"A gap-filler for non-specialists and a stimulus to the knowledgeable.... The book is jargon-free. It could also usefully be read by students themselves."
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The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
Taught more frequently than any of Charlotte Brontë's other novels, Jane Eyre presents distinct problems for the contemporary undergraduate instructor, one being the work's sheer length. Almost all the instructors who responded to a survey conducted for this volume spent two to three weeks teaching the novel in their courses and seminars; their students discovered, in the words of the volume coeditor Diane Long Hoeveler, "as much about themselves, their own memories of childhood, their own struggles for autonomy, as they [did] about the cultural, social, economic, religious, and literary backgrounds that constitute the milieu of the novel."
Like other books in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, this one is divided into two parts. The first part, "Materials," discusses editions, relevant background and critical studies, biographies, bibliographies, and other aids to teaching. In the second part, "Approaches," twenty contributors discuss Brontë's background and biography; the influence of Christianity, fairy tales, and Gothic fiction on her work; the themes of the novel and its social and political implications; its film and stage adaptations; relevant artworks (paintings, etchings, and portraits); and various theoretical approaches to teaching the book.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Brontë's Jane Eyre
PART 1: MATERIALS
Beth Lau
Editions
Biography
Background Studies
Critical Studies
Aids to Teaching
Bibliographies
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
Diane Long Hoeveler
Teaching the Times and the Life
Jane Eyre and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
James Diedrick
The Place of Jane Eyre in the Brontë Family Canon
Janet H. Freeman
Jane Eyre and Biography
Thomas L. Jeffers
Jane Eyre and the Governess in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Mary Poovey
Teaching the Literary and Philosophical Traditions
Jane Eyre, Bertha, and the Female Gothic
Tamar Heller
"Beauty and the Beast": Growing Up with Jane Eyre
Phyllis C. Ralph
Jane Eyre and Christianity
Susan VanZanten Gallagher
Jane Eyre: Charlotte Brontë's New Bible
Keith A. Jenkins
Teaching Specific Contexts
Jane Eyre and Narrative Voice
John O. Jordan
Fire and Light in Jane Eyre
Mary Burgan
Contrast and Liminality: Structure and Antistructure in Jane Eyre
Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.
Jane Eyre and Pictorial Representation
Margaret Goscilo
Jane Eyre and Imperialism
John Kucich
Jane Eyre and the Politics of Style
Dennis W. Allen
Jane Eyre through the Body: Food, Sex, Discipline
Diane Long Hoeveler
Jane Eyre as a Novel of Vindication
Bernard J. Paris
Jane Eyre and Family Sytems Therapy
Jerome Bump
Rediscovering Jane Eyre through Its Adaptations
Donna Marie Nudd
Taking a Walk; or, Setting Forth from Gateshead
Robert L. Patten
A Kristevan Reading of the Marriage Plot in Jane Eyre
David Rosenwasser
Works Cited
Editions of Jane Eyre
Books and Articles
Films and Filmstrips
Recordings
Index
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